City OKs DePaul student housing

Commissioners unanimously approved the project on the site of the Coyne American Institute Inc. at 1215 W. Fullerton Ave. The 265,000-square-foot project, led by Chicago-based developer Smithfield Properties LLC and designed by Chicago-based Antunovich Associates, will include 160 units and 17,000 square feet of retail space.

Coyne, a 105-year old trade school, will move in early December to a new building developed by Smithfield at 330 N. Green St. in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, says Smithfield principal W. Harris "Bill" Smith.

Demolition of the old Coyne building is scheduled for December, with plans to open the new housing project in late summer 2006.